On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:37 PM, João Eiras <joaoe@opera.com> wrote:
> However the baseline APIs provided by browser should be designed for
> clarity. While it's optional to learn to use a library, it's not as often
> optional to learn the APIs of the web platform.
Well, there seems to be some sentiment that the platform should be a
good enough library.
http://infrequently.org/2012/08/inadmissible-arguments/
We already have the verb'd variant, insertBefore(). Big reason why we
added these new methods is to provide short names for common
operations (also ES6-style API and making it easier to deal with
text).
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